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    Image number: RS.10343
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    ‘Plumbago’ (graphite)

    Date
    1752
    Creator
    Johann Michael Seligmann (1720, German) , Engraver
    After
    J F Kiefhaber, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    Tracts/X23/5
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 194mm
    width (print): 125mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > mineral
    Description
    An example of ‘Plumbago’ (graphite).

    This sample was excavated in Conradsdorf, Saxony.

    Plate 2 from Fossilium Metalla Et Res Metallicas Concernentium Glebae Suis Coloribus Expressae by Casimir Christoph Schmiedel (Nuremberg, Iohannis Michaelis Seligmanni, 1752). Inscribed, ‘Tabula II. J. F. Kiefhaber ad viv. pinx. J. M. Seligmann sculps et excud.’
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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